But asteroids aren't inherently menacing. They're just ancient objects, formed early in our solar system's history, that ...

Earth has got a new mini-moon for the next couple of days and it has fascinated people across social media. Albeit, it might ...

A series of radar images taken by Nasa has revealed that a large asteroid which zoomed past Earth last week was actually two ...

The Deep Space Network’s Goldstone Solar System Radar near Barstow, California, captured a series of radar images of the near ...

Eager to not meet a similar fate, the National Academy of Sciences has called for planetary defense to be a national priority ...

PT5 "mini-moon" asteroid will soon be in Earth's orbit. Here's everything you need to know about this celestial event.

A powerful burst of X-rays from a nuclear explosion could be used to stop Armageddon just in the nick of time, a new ...

According to experiments and computer simulations, the radiation of a nuclear blast could be enough to change the trajectory ...

When asteroid samples dropped to the Utah desert in 2023, it was go time for NASA's dedicated curation team.

New close-up images reveal the surprising snowman shape of "potentially hazardous" asteroid 2024 ON, which tumbled safely ...

The internet has been buzzing about a so-called "mini-moon." Here's what we know about 2024 PT5 and if it will be visible.

There's a new moon on the horizon. The Earth will gain a second, mini-moon on Sept. 29, but it won't stick around too long.